I'm not sure what I was thinking when I added that check in, but it's been there since the inception. We shouldn't care at all what the real uid is when we call toggle_dac_capability and indeed we don't care with the libcap-ng version. Remove that check. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> --- mount.cifs.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mount.cifs.c b/mount.cifs.c index 06715dd..c90ce3e 100644 --- a/mount.cifs.c +++ b/mount.cifs.c @@ -552,9 +552,6 @@ toggle_dac_capability(int writable, int enable) cap_t caps; cap_value_t capability = writable ? CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE : CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH; - if (getuid() != 0) - return 0; - caps = cap_get_proc(); if (caps == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Unable to get current capability set: %s\n", -- 1.7.7.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html